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An instructional technology pilot program at Penn State Berks allows online students to view their peers and instructor as though they were interacting face-to-face. The pilot of the web-based platform YouSeeU is possible through Penn State Berks’s Center for Learning & Teaching and the Office of Academic Affairs, according to Mary Ann Mengel, instructional multimedia ...Read Full Article →

Two technology pilots to explore new video capture solutions in the classroom are happening at Penn State Berks this semester, including a pilot of the robotic video capture solution Swivl. “We were fortunate that Paul Esqueda, our senior associate dean of Academic Affairs, was willing to fund these opportunities for us to explore new solutions ...Read Full Article →

This is the fourth in a series profiling each Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) campus instructional designer. Cheryl Farren Tkacs has been an instructional designer for Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, since 2006. What experiences have you had in educational technology before coming to Penn State? As an instructor at Westmoreland County Community ...Read Full Article →

The One Button Studio (OBS) has enabled faculty and students to record high-quality video by simply pressing a single button. Now, the same team that developed the OBS is incorporating another new technology into the video system to enable faculty to create more engaging course videos. The OBS team has incorporated a simple yet elegantly ...Read Full Article →

Back in October, TLT announced the hiring of our new senior director, Jennifer Sparrow. Bringing Jennifer on board to lead TLT was something sort of a coup for us as she brings with her a great reputation on a national level in the world of teaching and learning with technology. For example, in 2013 she ...Read Full Article →

Communication students at Penn State Abington are benefiting from the addition of streaming video content in their redesigned hybrid courses. Ron Costello, senior instructional designer and lecturer of communication at Penn State Abington, has been redesigning his COMM 100 (GS) The Mass Media and Society and COMM 150 (GA) The Art of the Cinema courses. ...Read Full Article →